[Lexicog] Shoebox blank fields: Can I find them?

[Robert Hedinger]

Another way to do the filter is as follows:

(
\ph
)

Where you are looking for an empty \ph field.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 29 January, 2004 21:33
Subject: [Lexicog] Shoebox blank fields: Can I find them?


| Sometimes when I am working with a mother tongue speaker using Shoebox, I
| get data so quickly that I am not able to keyboard much more than the word I
| have heard. Other fields have to be left blank until later, such as fields
| for the gloss, example sentence(s), etc.
|
| I know how to make filters to extract various kinds of data from my Shoebox
| database, such as filters to find words for all the animals, all
| intransitive verbs, all prefixes, etc.). But I do not know how to locate (by
| Shoebox search or filter) all instances of a blank field, for example, all
| blank gloss fields. Do any of you know if I can do such a search within
| Shoebox? (If so, how?) Of course, I can examine my 9 MB Shoebox database
| with Microsoft Word and search for blank fields, but it would be easier if I
| could stay within Shoebox--for one thing, Shoebox works very quickly within
| RAM memory of my computer, while MS Word slows way down with large databases
| (I have a fast CPU, 784 MB of Ram.
|
| Thanks,
| Wayne
| -----
| Wayne Leman
| Busby, Montana, U.S.A.
| Cheyenne dictionary project:
| http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/cddicy.htm
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